Pierre de Brézé

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Pierre de Brézé (* around 1410; † July 16, 1465 in the Battle of Montlhéry ) from the House of Brézé was a knight and count of Maulévrier . He came from a noble Anjou family , but the names of his parents are not known. Through his marriage to Jeanne du Bec-Crespin, the heir to Guillaume IX, he became Seigneur de Mauny et Le Bec-Crespin .

In 1437 he became Seneschal of Anjou, in 1439/40 he stood at the king's side during the uprising of the Praguerie , and from 1440 to 1451 he was Seneschal of Poitou . However, he hardly exercised this office, nor did the positions of captain of the castles of Nîmes , Poitiers , Niort , Meulan etc. entrusted to him . Instead, he became one of the main advisers to King Charles VII at the Paris court and one of those on whom the intrigues around the monarch were due. He reached the zenith of his power in 1444-1450, when he was the actual master of the French government under the protection of the royal mistress Agnès Sorel († 1450).

As a skilled military, he took part in the Normandy campaigns from 1448 to 1450 , conquered Pont-de-l'Arche , later Verneuil , together with Robert de Floques , and commanded the cavalry at the Battle of Formigny (April 15, 1450). In 1449 he became the captain of Rouen , and in 1451 the Grand Senech of Normandy. After the death of Charles VII, he was in 1461 by the new King Louis XI. deposed and imprisoned for his loyalty to his father. Only after the marriage of his son Jacques de Brézé to Charlotte, the illegitimate daughter of Karl and Agnès Sorel, did he regain his freedom in 1462.

Pierre de Brézé was the last Normandy Seneschal to actually exercise the office.

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SURNAME Brézé, Pierre de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Knight and Count of Maulévrier
DATE OF BIRTH around 1410
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1465
Place of death Battle of Montlhéry